Fellow Monks,
     I have recently been tasked with a problem that is quite puzzling to me. We are beta testing a piece of software that we have written for the windows platform. We want the ability to log to an Oracle DB as much information as we can on who, and the number of who, downloaded our product and when. My first impulse is to right a cgi to be the reciever of a hyperlink, recieve the user, log all the information possible, then meta redirect them to the actual software download. That's well and fine, except I have no idea how to grab any info from the customer. My question is this, is my way the most effective way, and if so how does one pull information such as the IP of a user via simple CGI/PERL? Any help will be much appreciated.
Tradez
"Never underestimate the predicability of stupidity"
- Bullet Tooth Tony, Snatch (2001)

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